Events from the year 1735 in Canada.
Incumbents
- French Monarch: Louis XV
- British and Irish Monarch: George II
Governors
- Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
- Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville
- Governor of Nova Scotia: Lawrence Armstrong
- Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Events
- Catholic priest Jean-Pierre Aulneau went to Fort St. Charles with Pierre La Vérendrye as a missionary.
Births
Full date unknown
- Alexander McKee, agent for the Indian Department (died 1799)
Deaths
Historical documents
- Hudson's Bay Company charter allows it to impose its sovereignty (including making war) in lands "not possess'd by any Christian Power"
- HBC employee describes Indigenous people's divination, and how his boss turned to them in 1735 when ship from England was overdue
- Long description of activities and Christian customs of Haudenosaunee at Kahnawake (Note: racial stereotypes)
- Pierre de la Vérendrye informs Gov. Beauharnois that Fort Maurepas on Red River near Lake Winnipeg has been built
- Jesuit missionary afraid to go 3,600 miles to live alone with uncontacted Indigenous people "who dwell in holes" (Note: "savages" used)
- Panis subject to enslavement in Canada by common practice, not formal law, and can be granted freedom (Note: "savages" used)
- Intendant Gilles Hocquart reports two executions, for abduction and violence against six-year-old and for enslaved man's domestic thievery
- Master carpenter to be paid for major job in Montreal with merchandise, four bottles of eau de vie, 30 bushels of wheat and cash
- Brief details of defences and fishing fleets of Louisbourg and other French settlements in region
- Fishers working banks near Canso may have single sloop or schooner catching 400-500 quintals or send out six to twelve boats or more
- Previous complaints about poorly cured Canso fish arise because ships load fish before salt curing process is complete
- Nova Scotia lieutenant governor Armstrong again repeats his requests for increased strength against subject Acadians and nearby French
- Detailed reasons for settling Nova Scotia with numerous Protestants to protect northern limit of continental colonies against French
- Detailed proposal for establishing settlers and civil government in Nova Scotia through trusteeship of "honble. and experienced persons"
- Petition for poor London craftsmen to be settled in Nova Scotia with civil government (tied to petition for salt works in Bahamas)
- Armstrong visits Minas and finds locals submissive "only from policy" while "inciting the Indians [—] those poor ignorant wretches"
- "Stocks are Impaired & greatly deminished by such pernicious proceedings" - exporting cattle prohibited except through Annapolis Royal or Canso
- Acadian deputies can't, as Catholics, execute Council orders, which it fixes by having them made constables "in their own privite affairs"
- Council committee sets cordwood price after Armstrong declares overcharging French are entitled only to wood they personally need
- "Some people here tell stories of Indians have been seen some years ago[...]nor did I see one person in Newfoundland had ever seen an Indian"
- "This day was laid the first Stone of the Fortification here [in Schenectady, New York] under the discharge of the great Guns"
- New York governor Cosby "laid hold of the people's apprehensions" to convince them money had to be spent on defence, no matter their "poverty"
- Board of Trade suggests to Privy Council that Massachusetts pay for defences of Pemaquid, which has only eastern fort to check French
- Gov. Belcher reports success in peace talks with "Cagnawagas," and suggests outlawing private trading to end cheating done to "Eastern Indians"
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